There are loads of people who I find interesting because of their accomplishments, skills, expertise, or life experiences.
For most people, another person doesn’t need to be contrarian to be interesting.
For most people, another person doesn’t need to be contrarian to be interesting.
I’d go one further and say that contrarians are intrinsically uninteresting. They are very predictable and tedious in their inability to accept ideas just because they are accepted by others. Being systematically opposed to ideas because they are perceived as mainstream is just as much of a fallacious reasoning than the other way around.